Forced To Flee Proudly Celebrates World Refugee Week 2020
Refugee Week Special Pages
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What is World Refugee Week and what is its significance?
Refugee Week celebrates refugee's journeys and their experiences. During World Refugee Week we celebrate refugees. We celebrate our contribution to the crisis. We celebrate our co-operation, with one another, to help end the crisis.
We reflect on those who lost their lives due to reckless action by people, and governments.
And we show our strength, as a planet, as one community, as one family. We show refugees all around the world that we are here for them, we show them that we hear them, and we show them that we stand with them. We listen to those whose voices aren't heard and give them a platform to speak out and shout from the rooftops for everyone to hear!
We reflect on those who lost their lives due to reckless action by people, and governments.
And we show our strength, as a planet, as one community, as one family. We show refugees all around the world that we are here for them, we show them that we hear them, and we show them that we stand with them. We listen to those whose voices aren't heard and give them a platform to speak out and shout from the rooftops for everyone to hear!
What does the word "refugee" mean to us?
Many people have different opinions on the word "refugee". If you ask google it tells you that a refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. To others it can be an insult, a word, understandably, that no-one would want to be known as.
We believe a refugee is someone who is honourable, courageous, determined, resilient and equal. They are no different to anyone else, whether that be your neighbour, your high school friend, or you. They are just like us. Humans. People. Family. We all live together under one roof, that is this earth. We must show refugees that they should not be frightened or scared to speak, and we are here to listen and support. We are here to make a change. Together.
We believe a refugee is someone who is honourable, courageous, determined, resilient and equal. They are no different to anyone else, whether that be your neighbour, your high school friend, or you. They are just like us. Humans. People. Family. We all live together under one roof, that is this earth. We must show refugees that they should not be frightened or scared to speak, and we are here to listen and support. We are here to make a change. Together.
